Year: 2013
Presented at an international conference entitled 'Nationalsozialismus und Regionalbewußtsein im östlichen Europa: Ideologie - Machtausbau - Beharrung', organised by the Europäisches Netzwerk Erinnerung und Solidarität and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 24 October 2013.Read more...
On 24 October 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Herrschaft durch Schulung: The "Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten im Osten" and the Third Reich's Germanising Mission' at an international conference on 'Nationalsozialismus und Regionalbewußtsein im östlichen Europa: Ideologie - Machtausbau - Beharrung'.Read more...
'Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft: Exploring relationships between pupils at the Napolas and British public schoolboys'in Angermion: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers / Jahrbuch für britisch-deutsche Kulturbeziehungen 6, 2013, pp. 101-26.
Between 1934 and 1939, pupils from the Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten engaged in a series of exchanges with boys from British public schools. This article explores in detail the Anglo-German relationships – including tensions and prejudices – which were forged between pupils and staff during these exchanges, focusing on exchange programmes with Dauntsey's, Kingswood, and The Leys.Read more...
New publication: "Wanderer, kommst du nach Pforta"Helen's article, '"Wanderer, kommst du nach Pforta": The tension between Classical tradition and the demands of a Nazi elite-school education at Schulpforta and Ilfeld, 1934–1945' has just been published in the latest issue of the European Review of History / revue européenne d'histoire. The paper explores the tensions which arose when Schulpforta, Germany’s most renowned humanistic boarding-school, was forcibly turned into a Nazi elite-school (a Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt, or Napola).Read more...
Outreach: Leicester University Distance-Learning CourseHelen has recently contributed to a distance-learning course which is currently offered by the University of Leicester, entitled 'Deconstructing Sparta'. The coursebook contains ten thematic chapters, which aim to synthesise the most up-to-date scholarship on Sparta in an engaging and readable fashion.
Helen's chapter, entitled 'Later Reception and Modern Recreation of Sparta', charts the development of Spartan reception through the ages.Read more...
Presented at an international conference entitled Children and War: Past and Present, University of Salzburg, 10 July 2013.Read more...
On 10 July 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Fight or Flight? Narrating the fate of Nazi elite-school pupils during the collapse of the Third Reich' at an international conference on Children and War: Past and Present, University of Salzburg.Read more...
On 5 July 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled "Conducting Correspondence and Oral History Interviews with former Napola-pupils: Some methodological perspectives" at a workshop on 'Formen und Medien der Erinnerung' which was held at the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg.Read more...
Presented at a workshop on 'Formen und Medien der Erinnerung', hosted by the Arbeitsgruppe ZeugInnenschaft, Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, 5 July 2013.Read more...
Helen has been invited to the Freie Universität Berlin as a Visiting Lecturer affiliated with the TOPOI Excellence Cluster: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations. TOPOI is a research network hosted by the FU and the Humboldt Universität, and forms part of the newly-constituted Berliner Antike-Kolleg.Read more...